Virocontrol involves biocontrol of pathogens via hypovirulence-causing mycoviruses. This
chapter discusses the characteristics of mycoviruses and the conditions that need to be met …

Approximately a year ago, when I accepted the offer to act as a Guest Editor for the Special
Issue 'Mycoviruses' organised by the MDPI journal Viruses, I dared not expect that …

Plant diseases caused by fungal pathogens are a major cause of yield loss in agriculture
and forestry. Mycoviruses have been discovered in many important plant pathogenic fungi …

Mycoviruses from plant pathogens can induce hypovirulence (reduced virulence) in their
host fungi and have gained considerable attention as potential biocontrol tools. An …

Fifteen families of mycoviruses have been described and 80% of these catalogued.
However, their evolutionary relationship with fungi is not clear. The mycovirus genome can …

There appear to be over a million of fungal species including those that have been
unidentified and unreported, where a variety of viruses make a world as well. Studies on a …

In disease ecology, parasite transmission is a key parameter important at both
epidemiological and evolutionary scales. Mycoviruses can be transmitted both horizontally …

▪ Abstract Fungal viruses are considered unconventional because they lack an extracellular
route of infection and persistently infect their hosts, often in the absence of apparent …

Infection of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, by the prototypic hypovirus
Cryphonectria hypovirus 1-EP713 (CHV1-EP713) or by the type member, Mycoreovirus 1 …

Viruses are tiny genetic elements that can have enormous impacts on living systems.
Relative to viruses of prokaryotes and many other eukaryotes, mycoviruses have received …